Lets say i have a network of mongoDB servers. I want to write a record with
name: XFaon and age: 14
how does mongodb choose which srver its stored on. also if i have a group of mongodb servers, which one of them exactly am i supposed to connect to from c++. I beleive mongodb is decenteralized so there shouldnt be a centeral access point.
One more thing, when I search for a record, like all records that have age 14, and age is a primary key, how dos mongodb say, hmm this db might have this record.
I dont think every single db is asked to search its tables for this record because that would practically be dddosing ur own infastructure.
In a standalone deployment (generally for development) or a replica set deployment (minimum recommended for production environments) each mongod process stores the same data.
If your use case merits a larger or more distributed deployment, sharded clusters allow you to define a per-collection shard key index to distribute data. Sharded clusters have additional infrastructure components including config servers which keep track of the sharded cluster metadata and mongos processes which route queries to the correct member(s) of the sharded cluster based on the query and collection’s sharding metadata.
A database in a sharded cluster can have both unsharded and sharded collections. Unsharded collections live on primary shard for each database; data in sharded collections is partitioned across available shards based on a chosen shard key for the collection. For more information, please review mongos Routing and Results Process in the MongoDB documentation.
From an application/driver point of view, you generally do not have to keep track of the cluster topology. The driver API includes discovery of changes in configuration and availability for replica sets and sharded clusters. However, you can specify read preferences if you want to route queries to specific members of a replica set and set up up zones for sharded clusters for more control over read and write distribution of sharded data.